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January 18th, 2012, 12:37 GMT · By

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openSUSE and Fedora Protest Against SOPA

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Today, January 18th, the openSUSE and Fedora websites are on strike against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act).

While the Fedora Project website only displays a text saying "The Fedora Project does not promote internet censorship. Help stop SOPA and PIPA.", the openSUSE website is already redirecting to http://sopastrike.com/strike.

"We hope the decision to blackout openSUSE.org will educate people around the world about this issue that threatens the basics of the Internet, will make some US based contributors, friends and users contact their representatives in congress and inspire others to join the strike." - said Henne Vogelsang from openSUSE in the announcement.

As you probably know already, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives.

If made law, it will enable copyright holders and U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in counterfeit goods and copyrighted intellectual property.
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Comment #1 by: MrsB on 18 Jan 2012, 16:45 UTC reply to this comment

Mageia too.


Comment #2 by: JT on 18 Jan 2012, 17:03 UTC reply to this comment

"If made law, it will enable copyright holders and U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in counterfeit goods and copyrighted intellectual property." Is only a smokescreen for its real intent. Which is to control the internet in anyway that corporations not the people want too..


Comment #3 by: Leo on 18 Jan 2012, 23:52 UTC reply to this comment

I have done the same thing too on my project sites. And on top of that, i did not go into to work, and i will still not go if need be. - LeoLouis.users.sf.net


Comment #4 by: Avfnx on 19 Jan 2012, 03:17 UTC reply to this comment

If made law, it will enable copyright holders and U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in counterfeit goods and copyrighted intellectual property.

Really way to paint Fedora and openSUSE in good light. The law is about censorship that the scary part, educated your readers not misinform them.


Comment #5 by: Makka on 19 Jan 2012, 22:36 UTC reply to this comment

SOPA is absolutely needed and should have been introduced 15 years ago. Online piracy needs to stop. It's ridiculous those websites turn to black.

Comment #5.1 by: JerrySmith on 21 Jan 2012, 16:50 GMT

I don't feed the trolls but you may need this reply if just in-case; you suffer with a metal retardation as a metal heath problem. So Really? -Then do you realise that you won't be able to even come on to softpedia eventually if it took action. This law goes beyond copyright and piracy and their is already good copyright laws just that they are too lazy too use them. Its about greed & control. Its trolls like you that are ridiculous. So show some respect to theses guys in the Open Source Community, they work their butts of for everyone and this law will may also try to destroy all "downloads" regardless of being legit or not.

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